While Nicolás Maduro moved Christmas up in Venezuela to Oct. 1, a gaita — the quintessential music genre for the holidays in the South American country — makes use of a speech by opposition leader ...

Scrooge is a miserly and lonely old whose bitterness becomes more latent at the time of Christmas. Before Eve, his late partner Marley, announces le, in an appearance, that three spirits will visit ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- With a nod to Christmas cheer, Venezuela's politicians are reveling -- and railing -- in a sometimes sour twist on holiday season carols called "gaitas." Venezuela's feisty ...

(CNN) — Christmas will start next month in Venezuela, authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro has decreed – even as thousands of Venezuelans look set to pass the holidays behind bars amid his government’s ...

The international community and most of the country’s population might be in an uproar amid allegations that he stole July’s presidential election, but for strongman Nicolas Maduro Christmas has come ...

The world’s attention on Venezuela has been focused in the last weeks on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the ...

FILE - In this March 12, 2020 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Jordan Goudreau, a former U.S. Green ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Trees around the presidential palace are draped with lights of brilliant yellow, blue and white. Workers in government offices have donned Santa hats. The security forces launched ...